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Episode 124 · Weekly show · 2h 7m

Built in Two Weeks: This Fantastic AI Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood

30 June 2026 · Chris Branch (Host), Andrew Davis (Co-host)

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The short version

Episode 124 was a happy scramble. Chris landed from Lisbon at 5am after a five-hour delay, Andrew nearly hosted shirtless in the heat, and producer Paul Parsons was back after two weeks away. The news was Seedance 2.5, with 4K output, up to 50 references and 30-second clips, plus ByteDance's Seed 1.0 Audio and fresh sightings of Claude Fable. Then came 15 pieces and a new format for long films: watch five minutes, then let the chat vote on whether to keep going. The uncredited Red Dot Movement earned its second half. Three pieces took straight 1s, and Lauren Indovina's RED!, a Little Red Riding Hood retelling built in two weeks, led them with a 1 from all 13 voters, ahead of Billy Boman's AI Animals and Sam Stephens' Beware.

The scoreboard

Every piece on AI LIVE goes to a live audience vote: 1 for awesome, 2 for okay, 3 for not for me. Here's how this week's work landed, best first.

  1. 1RED!Lauren Indovina100
  2. 2Billy's AI AnimalsBilly Boman100
  3. 3BewareSam Stephens100
  4. 4Red Dot Movement94
  5. 5ModernlandSimon Meyer92
  6. 6A Letter to America, From Football Fans404 Films89
  7. 7Soft PlayIkenna Mokwe82
  8. 8Odd Kid Showreel 2026Henry Daubrez68
  9. 9The Universe SummonerJesús Terrada Gómez67
  10. 10ExpressVPN Ad (World Cup competition entry)Erez Strauss64
  11. 11Children of a Dead Star (Trailer)Mark Wachholz64
  12. 12Last Recall (A Wonder Studios Original)Kavan the Kid58
  13. 13Shilajit OpticsBrainflakes, Amit Bimrot55
  14. 14Ichi Ni San Shi Go! Go! Go!HUBRIS Creative Studio50
  15. 15Red Rainbow: Bluebird, Episode 1Aze Alter43

Score out of 100: a 1 counts fully, a 2 counts half, a 3 counts zero. Votes are counted the way StreamYard's live poll counts them: every 1, 2 or 3 mentioned in a YouTube live chat message while that piece was on screen, one vote per person per poll (their first). LinkedIn Live comments are still to be added.

Key takeaways

  1. 01

    A familiar story with a fresh twist beats another dystopia. Minutes after Andrew asked for new twists on stories we already know, RED! reimagined Little Red Riding Hood and led the night with 13 straight 1s, while 404 Films summed up the room on sci-fi: brilliant execution, but we're all a bit overcooked on it.

  2. 02

    Agents are becoming the AI filmmaker's crew. Simon Meyer used invideo's Agent One to chop a song and batch out lip-synced clips from one start frame, Aze Alter made Red Rainbow in invideo's Agent Two, and Lauren Indovina went from storyboards to final picture in two weeks with Dreamina's Octo.

  3. 03

    Put your own name on the work. Billy Boman's AI Animals is an ad for his own studio, and Chris's advice to anyone wondering how to get noticed is to make the ideas you'd love a client to green-light and publish them yourself. Brand competitions like ExpressVPN's are another way in, with no client feedback to slow you down.

  4. 04

    Long projects race the model clock. A film over 15 minutes takes months, so creators often stay on the model they started with even as newer ones arrive, which is how a piece can look like "old AI" on release day. As the chat put it, old AI was yesterday.

  5. 05

    Long films need new formats. With submissions now running to 20 or 30 minutes, AI LIVE shows five-minute chunks and lets the audience vote on whether to keep watching, and Chris announced one-hour Wednesday episodes that go deep on a single creator's work.

  6. 06

    Model makers and aggregators play different games. Chris's view is that model builders don't need to win customers, because aggregators do the marketing, which is why the aggregators are now racing to build their own tools, agents and shows to stand out.

Everything we reviewed

15 pieces, in show order. Tap any one to watch the creator's original post.

01 · ▶ on the show at 9:15

Billy's AI Animals

By Billy Boman

Billy Boman's ad for his own studio, Billy Boman AI Productions: ten animals and ten terrible puns, from a hotel guest called Hugh Manity to a moose in a mosh pit and porcupines with attachment issues, several of them telling Billy where to go straight down the camera. Billy says it was generated entirely on Dreamina, upscaled with Topaz Labs and edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve. Chris loved the approach: instead of spec ads for other brands, Billy puts his own name through every idea, so clients see exactly what they'd get. The chat was voting 1 before the poll was even announced.

“You can do spec ads for the people that you want to work with or, as Billy does, he just uses his name throughout his ideas basically.”Chris Branch · ▶ 13:08

DreaminaTopaz LabsDaVinci Resolve

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02 · ▶ on the show at 17:35

ExpressVPN Ad (World Cup competition entry)

By Erez Strauss

Erez Strauss's entry to ExpressVPN's World Cup ad competition, built on one insight: 73% of employers spy on their employees online. A run of increasingly awkward searches ends with Kevin's boss reading search number 34 back to him. Your searches, your business. Erez used a dedicated Claude skill for prompting, Nano Banana Pro for start frames, Kling 3.0 for video, Suno for sound design and CapCut for the edit. Andrew liked the concept but felt the look could have come from a year ago, and Harriet in the chat summed up the room: 1 for the idea, 2 for the execution.

“It looked like this could have been done a year ago.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 19:01

ClaudeNano Banana ProKling 3.0SunoCapCut

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03 · ▶ on the show at 23:37

Shilajit Optics

By Brainflakes, Amit Bimrot

The latest film in Brainflakes' Shilajit brand universe, written and directed by Amit Bimrot, with music by Bigul. Bad eyesight, a bow and arrow and loved ones in the firing line, before the tagline lands: we only fix eyes, not stupidity. Chris saw it straight away as an Indian take on the classic Specsavers ads. Andrew enjoyed the repeat gag, while Chris felt some shots didn't hang together the way a well-prompted multi-shot model would, adding that some markets and campaigns rule out Chinese models entirely. The chat split almost evenly.

“If Specsavers could have been Indian, this would exactly be it, right?”Chris Branch · ▶ 25:18

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04 · ▶ on the show at 30:51

Odd Kid Showreel 2026

By Henry Daubrez

A 44-second showreel for Odd Kid, the original IP label and micro-studio Henry Daubrez has launched after fifteen years of building studios, including a spell on Google's AI film work. It strings together the worlds he's built over the last year, like The Light Within and Junkyard King, plus Electric Pink, Kidd-0 and Kitsune. Chris gave it a 1 for the music, the edit and how consistent Henry's animated characters feel from scene to scene. Andrew saw a teaching tool in it: give students the opening and the characters and let them build the rest.

“One of my favourite creators in the space for sure, just because of the style choices and the consistency and the storytelling.”Chris Branch · ▶ 34:05

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05 · ▶ on the show at 36:32

Modernland

By Simon Meyer

Simon Meyer's music video, made to launch his new YouTube channel and lip-sync tutorial. One start frame, one song, and Agent One from invideo doing the heavy lifting: the agent chops the track, generates black-screen MP4s and feeds each one in as a video reference alongside the start frame, giving a full batch of lip-synced performance clips. The chat heard Mumford and Sons, and the twist at the end drew a Shutter Island comparison. Andrew rates Simon as his number one AI creator, and Chris wants AI companies to give him a month instead of 48 hours.

“I think Simon is probably my, dare I say, number one AI creator in the space.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 40:15

Invideo Agent One

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06 · ▶ on the show at 42:07

Last Recall (A Wonder Studios Original)

By Kavan the Kid

The second film in Wonder Studios' Beyond the Loop Season 2, directed by Kavan the Kid. A year after a catastrophe in Harlow, Virginia, two federal agents use experimental memory-recovery technology to relive the survivors' final moments. We watched the first five minutes of a film of nearly half an hour, which Chris had already seen screened in Lisbon with the Wonder team. Andrew loved the idea and the execution, and Chris called it a big change from Chronicles of Bone and one to rewatch. The chat was divided, with some put off by the zombie violence.

“I thought the execution was really good. I really like this to be honest.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 49:19

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07 · ▶ on the show at 51:02

Red Rainbow: Bluebird, Episode 1

By Aze Alter

The first episode of Aze Alter's Red Rainbow, a Phantom X Original made in invideo's Agent Two and co-written with Nyukyung and Diana Markuta. Rosie Blue learns that every encounter carries a cost, and a dapper stranger called Frank starts to follow her. We watched the first five of its 18 minutes. Neither host is the target audience: Chris admired the storytelling and camera angles but couldn't get past Frank's unblinking eyes, and Andrew felt the transitions looked like AI from a year and a half ago. Mostly 2s from the chat.

“Frank has got to have some dry eyeballs, cuz he does not blink.”Chris Branch · ▶ 56:59

Invideo Agent Two

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08 · ▶ on the show at 1:00:16

Soft Play

By Ikenna Mokwe

Ikenna Mokwe's film for Lost Canon, an AI-native series from Moonmax and CapCut in partnership with Raindance Film Festival. It's built from his memory of a nameless pitch between the tower blocks in Hackney: a mum in goal on the phone asking if the meat's out of the freezer, and an auntie who flattens you then helps you up. Chris called Ikenna the UK's nostalgia king and liked the retro audio ducking, though one viewer hated it. Andrew called it the best AI football he's seen.

“Of all the football videos I've ever seen, this is probably the best one when it comes to nailing football.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:03:22

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09 · ▶ on the show at 1:05:25

Red Dot Movement

A puppet-style film posted on X with no credits, so we don't know who made it or even its real title, though Chris suspects a Chinese creator. A red dot virus with a 100% fatality rate turns into a status symbol, a religion and a stock market boom, before a final reveal that someone has been pulling the strings all along. After five minutes the chat voted to keep watching, and the full nine minutes landed almost all 1s. Andrew gave it a 1 and got Joker vibes, and Chris felt a tighter edit would have lifted it further.

“I thought it was very well executed.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:18:56

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10 · ▶ on the show at 1:20:08

The Universe Summoner

By Jesús Terrada Gómez

A two-minute claymation in which Jesús Terrada Gómez gives his creative process a body: a boy who builds universes while he sleeps, a duck that is his relentless inner editor, and a snail that gifts him the discipline to slow down. Chris loved the warm, older narrator and the dreamy storytelling but felt it was missing a twist to make it special. Andrew recognised the music from a famous UK advert and couldn't say why, but it was a 2 for him, and the chat leaned the same way.

“If I'm being honest, and I don't know why, I would give it a two.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:23:49

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11 · ▶ on the show at 1:30:06

Children of a Dead Star (Trailer)

By Mark Wachholz

A three-minute trailer from Particle Panic, real name Mark Wachholz. In 1979 an East German surveillance station intercepts an alien signal that turns out to be a language virus colonising minds. Mark shot most of it in Seedance 2.0 with extra Kling 3.0 shots, all inside Runway, with keyframes from Midjourney V8.1, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro, a Udio 5.5 score and Dehancer Pro film emulation. It won Best Trailer at the MetaMorph AI Film Award 2026. Chris praised the sound design and the trailer edit, but the chat leaned to 2s.

“Wow, the sound design on that one was incredible.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:33:48

Seedance 2.0Kling 3.0RunwayMidjourneyGPT Image 2Nano Banana ProUdioDehancer Pro

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12 · ▶ on the show at 1:37:35

RED!

By Lauren Indovina

Lauren Indovina's Little Red Riding Hood retelling, built in two weeks from storyboards to final picture and sound with Octo, Dreamina's new agentic tool, and Dreamina Seedance 2.0, using characters and worlds she's been designing for years. Red is a London girl whose dad is Sheriff Tommy, her nan takes in a poorly little 'fox', and a wolf mother is working very hard to improve her nature. Viewers spotted Suno in the credits. Chris called it his favourite of the episode by far and wants Lauren on as a guest. Every single vote was a 1.

“It was by far my favourite one of the episode so far.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:47:15

Dreamina OctoSeedance 2.0

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13 · ▶ on the show at 1:48:02

Beware

By Sam Stephens

Sam Stephens' 85-second comedy about manners, or the lack of them, set to a song: there be monsters everywhere. The man who claims the whole front row, the stinky lunch, the queue jumper, the full recline and the speakerphone talker, before the payoff, don't let them make a monster of you. Andrew said it might be his new favourite of the day, and Chris called it a smart use of visuals and music and a straight 1. The chat agreed: nothing but 1s.

“I think this might be my favourite one of the day now.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:50:06

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14 · ▶ on the show at 1:52:22

A Letter to America, From Football Fans

By 404 Films

A timely World Cup piece from Jimmy at 404 Films, one of the show's most regular submitters. Football fans from Brazil to Norway and Argentina to Ghana deliver one message to the US men's team: don't take it personally, you've got basketball, the Olympics and the Ryder Cup. It was made with Midjourney and Seedance 2.0 in 4K via Dreamina, as an experiment in AI realism and global character performance. Chris loved every national stereotype and called it genius, Andrew said it could pass for a Nike ad, and the chat went almost all 1s.

“If you got all those references, oh my god, that is absolutely bloody genius, Jimmy.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:53:40

MidjourneySeedance 2.0Dreamina

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15 · ▶ on the show at 1:58:03

Ichi Ni San Shi Go! Go! Go!

By HUBRIS Creative Studio

A retro-futurist music video from HUBRIS Creative Studio: four young women tear through an electrified, 1980s-inspired Tokyo of neon streets, motorbikes and punk clubs, blending live-action realism with the attitude of classic Japanese racing cartoons. Rourke Heath dropped into the chat to say it was made by Chuck, one of his GenHQ members, and Chris loved seeing someone learn the craft in a community and then find a publisher through a submission link. Squeezed in before a hard stop, it closed the show to a mixed vote.

“Rourke has just commented that this is actually one of his GenHQ members that made this music video and it was also submitted to us.”Chris Branch · ▶ 2:00:26

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Said live

“Can you just give me a month to make something a bit better and actually have some edit time and actually think about this?”
Chris BranchOn AI companies asking for 48-hour turnarounds▶ 41:52
“I just feel we're at the point where technology is catching up to our ideas. What we can think about, we can create.”
Andrew DavisAsking for new twists on familiar stories▶ 1:37:06
“If you aim for a much longer project, the models could update and suddenly you want to use the new versions, but then these don't work with the old versions.”
Chris BranchWhy long AI films can look dated on release▶ 59:33
“Sometimes I look at the idea and I'm like, I really like the idea, but it was not executed in the way that I think it should be.”
Andrew DavisOn Harriet's "1 for the idea, 2 for the execution"▶ 26:11
“It is a fundamentally different business model and play if you're a foundational model builder versus being an aggregator.”
Chris BranchOn where the money is in AI video▶ 1:28:44
“Anyone watching that's thinking, how do I put myself out there? The ideas that you'd like clients to green light that maybe they haven't done yet, just put them out there in this sort of format.”
Chris BranchAfter Billy's AI Animals▶ 15:31
“All ones from the audience. So clearly we were not alone in that thinking, mate.”
Chris BranchAfter RED!▶ 1:47:39

Quotes are trimmed of filler words for reading. Every timestamp opens the show at that moment.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Back from Lisbon on five hours' sleep
  2. 5:02News: Claude Fable sightings and ByteDance's Seed 1.0 Audio
  3. 7:22Seedance 2.5: 4K, 50 references and wireframe editing
  4. 9:15Billy's AI Animals by Billy Boman
  5. 12:59Why put your own name on your spec ads?
  6. 17:35ExpressVPN World Cup competition entry by Erez Strauss
  7. 19:58Are brand competitions the new way into AI work?
  8. 23:37Shilajit Optics by Brainflakes
  9. 26:04One for the idea, two for the execution
  10. 28:19Why long films are now shown in five-minute chunks
  11. 30:51Odd Kid Showreel 2026 by Henry Daubrez
  12. 36:32Modernland: lip-syncing a whole song with an invideo agent
  13. 40:57Should AI companies give creators more time?
  14. 42:07Last Recall by Kavan the Kid
  15. 51:02Red Rainbow: Bluebird by Aze Alter
  16. 58:35What counts as "old AI" now?
  17. 1:00:16Soft Play by Ikenna Mokwe
  18. 1:05:25Red Dot Movement: who made it?
  19. 1:11:05The chat votes to watch the second half
  20. 1:20:08The Universe Summoner by Jesús Terrada Gómez
  21. 1:26:47Is OpenArt's Director the future of AI filmmaking?
  22. 1:27:59Are the aggregators where the money is?
  23. 1:30:06Children of a Dead Star trailer by Particle Panic
  24. 1:34:01What makes a great trailer?
  25. 1:36:57Why does so much AI film feel the same?
  26. 1:37:35RED! by Lauren Indovina
  27. 1:48:02Beware by Sam Stephens
  28. 1:52:22A Letter to America, From Football Fans by 404 Films
  29. 1:58:03Ichi Ni San Shi Go! Go! Go! by HUBRIS Creative Studio
  30. 2:03:21New Wednesday guest episodes and wrap-up

Questions this episode answers

What was AI LIVE Episode 124 about?

Episode 124 (30 June 2026) was hosted by Chris Branch and Andrew Davis, with Paul Parsons back producing after two weeks away. They reviewed 15 AI pieces live, including Lauren Indovina's Little Red Riding Hood retelling RED!, built in two weeks with Dreamina's Octo and Seedance 2.0, Billy Boman's AI Animals, Simon Meyer's agent-made music video Modernland, and an uncredited film, Red Dot Movement, that the audience voted to keep watching. The news was Seedance 2.5. RED! led three pieces on straight 1s with 13 ones and no 2s or 3s.

Which piece won the audience vote on AI LIVE Episode 124?

RED! by Lauren Indovina led a three-way tie on straight 1s, with all 13 voters in the YouTube chat giving it a 1. Billy's AI Animals by Billy Boman and Beware by Sam Stephens also took nothing but 1s, with 12 each, and the uncredited Red Dot Movement came next with 8 ones and a single 2.

How was Lauren Indovina's RED! made?

Lauren built it in two weeks, from storyboards to final picture and sound, using Octo, an agentic tool inside Dreamina, together with Dreamina Seedance 2.0. The characters, designs and world come from years of her own drawing, sculpting and design work. Viewers watching live spotted Suno in the credits for the music.

How did Simon Meyer lip-sync a whole song for Modernland?

He started from one start frame and one song and let Agent One from invideo do the repetitive work. The agent split the track, generated an individual black-screen MP4 for each chunk and fed each one in as a video reference alongside the start frame, producing a full batch of lip-synced performance clips. Simon shared the workflow in a YouTube tutorial and a free PDF.

Who made Red Dot Movement?

As of 30 June 2026 nobody knew. The film was posted on X without any credits or end titles, and the hosts were not even sure of its real name. Chris thought it was likely made by a Chinese creator and asked viewers to help identify them so they could be credited.

How can I get my AI work featured on AI LIVE?

Submit it through the form at theailiveshow.com. Every Tuesday at 4pm UK the hosts review the best submissions live on LinkedIn and YouTube, and every piece goes to a live audience vote: 1 for awesome, 2 for okay, 3 for not for me.

Show notes

Chris landed back from Lisbon at 5am after his flight was held for five hours when the airport bus crashed into the plane's staircase, Andrew had to throw a top on in the heat just before going live, and producer Paul Parsons returned after two weeks away.

In the news: Seedance 2.5 arrived with 4K output, up to 50 references, clips of up to 30 seconds and a wireframe tool for changing things inside a generated video. ByteDance's Seed 1.0 Audio rolled out across Runway, Higgsfield and other aggregators, and Claude Fable briefly reappeared on mobile for some users. Later, Andrew flagged OpenArt's new Director tool, and the hosts debated whether the aggregators are where the money is.

The show tried a new format for long films, pausing after five minutes for the chat to vote on whether to keep watching, and Chris announced one-hour Wednesday episodes with special guests, with Uncanny Harry among the first. The submission form is also getting an option to say whether you're submitting your own work or someone else's.

Episode
124
Format
Weekly show
Aired
30 June 2026
Runtime
2:07:31
Pieces reviewed
15
Live votes counted
167

Tools on the table

DreaminaTopaz LabsDaVinci ResolveClaudeNano Banana ProKling 3.0SunoCapCutInvideo Agent OneInvideo Agent TwoSeedance 2.0RunwayMidjourneyGPT Image 2UdioDehancer ProDreamina Octo

On the show

  • Chris BranchChris BranchHost
  • Andrew DavisAndrew DavisCo-host
  • Paul ParsonsPaul ParsonsProducer

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